NFL Week 4, College Week 5

Elimination Picks:
NCAAF: Oklahoma over TCU
NFL: Bills over Rams

NFL Picks:
Redskins (+11) at Cowboys
Eagles (-3) at Bears
Chargers (-7.5) at Raiders
49ers at Saints (-5)

NCAAF Picks:
Alabama at Georgia (-6.5)
TCU (+18.5) at Oklahoma
South Florida at NC State (+9.5)
Troy (+17) at Oklahoma State

NFL Week 3/CFB Week 4

Elimination Picks:
I'll do these first, since I outright forgot last week.
NFL: New York Football Giants over Cincinnati
NCAAF: The Ohio State University over Troy

NFL Picks:
6-2 on the year
Cleveland (+.5) at Baltimore
Pittsburgh (+3.5) at Philadelphia
Houston (+5.5) at Tennessee
Carolina (+3.5) at Minnesota

NCAAF Picks:
5-7 on the year
LSU (-2.5) at Auburn
Virginia Tech at North Carolina (-3)
Iowa (-1) at Pittsburgh
Wake Forest at Florida St. (-5)

Elimination Pool Picks

I neglected to do the elimination pool picks in NFL and NCAAF in my last post.

NCAAF: Illinois over Louisiana-Lafayette
NFL: Seattle over San Francisco

The Picks... CFB Week 3, NFL Week 2

Hello All... Let's get the picks in quick here. Another weekend with too many lackluster games in the College world. And the NFL lines seem predicated on Vegas overreacting to Week 1 blowouts.

NFL Picks:
Oak at KC (-4.5)
SF (+8.5) at SEA
NE (+1.5) at NYJ
TEN (+1.5) at CIN

NCAAF Picks:
Kansas (+3.5) at South Florida
Ohio State at USC (-11.5)
Michigan (-2) at Notre Dame
Georgia Tech (+6.5) at Virginia Tech

Gregorian Calendar Remains Unchanged, Still Only One October

Major League Baseball's promotions department needs to get a clue. Has anyone else seen/become instantly enraged by this "October Gonzo" thing they're doing? It's all over MLB.com, alongside a line of constantly-airing commercials, ensuring loyal viewers a level of mild-to-severe insanity, just in time for the start of the post-season. Yes, this is another one of those times when we discover MLB's glaring cluelessness in appealing to the diehard (or even casual) fan. "Hey, we're in touch with blogging! Blogging is hip, right?" If I may, allow me to get down to brass tacks: This shit is stupid.

So, they've hired some young actor (who I've seen before, in movies like "Old School" and "War of the Worlds") to pretend he's writing a blog about post-season baseball (a blog that NO ONE has ANY interest in actually reading, because IT'S A FAKE BLOG). Then they shoot a bunch of commercials and promotional footage, that airs incessantly while you try to enjoy actual baseball, or while you fight your way through what's become of SportsCenter. This chipper young fella', intending to appeal to a youthful audience, sits at a desk pretending to type, while raving about how there's only ONE October (just like there's only ONE of every month, last time I checked). But as if that wasn't bad enough, the folks at MLB.com sat down at a conference table and made the executive decision to name this character... "October Gonzo"... Are you serious? Is this someone at MLB's idea of a subtle nod to Gonzo journalism? Or are they actually trying to convince me that this dude's name IS INDEED October Gonzo?

YES, another wasteful campaign that fosters zero additional interest from real baseball fans, and no NEW interest from non-sports-fans. Thanks, baseball. And more importantly, thank you for the commercials that force me to momentarily change the channel, so as to avoid dunking my head into a blender running on 'ice crush' mode. Sure, I'm way interested in this 20-something's blog, as he harkens back to historic moments he's not even old enough to remember. And while we're on the topic of age, as a Yankee fan, I'll be experiencing October without my team for the first time since 4th grade. I was 8. Consequently, this campaign arrives with worse timing than a colon cancer diagnosis on Christmas eve.

Yet, what's most disturbing is, I can't determine if this is more or less annoying than Dane Cook faking enthusiasm about the Red Sox and Rockies.

College Football Week 2/NFL Week 1

Remember kiddos, my picks are in bold... This is what bold looks like.

Here are the four college games for this week, I went 2-2 last week in the first week, that's my record for the season so far.

West Virginia (-7.5) at East Carolina
Minnesota at Bowling Green (-5.5)
Buffalo at Pittsburgh (-13.5)
Mississippi at Wake Forest (-7.5)

I will also pick four NFL games every week... Here are the week one picks...
Bengals at Ravens (+2)
Texans at Steelers (-6.5)
Rams at Eagles (-7.5)
Seahawks (+1) at Bills

As per my post last week, Texas over UTEP, at UTEP is the NCAAF elimination pick for the second week there.

I tried to do the whole year in the NFL elimination pool in advance, I couldn't do it. The Eagles over the Rams in Philly is my elimination pool this week.